TWO NICE CATHOLIC BOYS is rooted in decade-old live tapes that Jim O'Rourke and Loren Connors recorded during a 1997 European tour. Returning to the taped improvisations, which he had not heard in the intervening years and only vaguely remembered, O'Rourke shaped three lengthy pieces out of the hours of raw material, wryly titling them "Maybe Paris," "Or Possibly Koln," and "Most Definitely Not Koln" in honor of their dubious provenance. O'Rourke adds only minimal structure to these loose, pleasantly meandering exercises in improvisational composition, keeping their live qualities at the forefront.